R A M A N U J A N C O L L E G E ANNUAL REPORT 2 0 1 9 - 2 0 2 0 CONTENTS Principal’s Report 2 Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) 7 7th Annual Ramanujan Memorial Lecture 12 Faculty Achievements 13 Department Activities 70 Centres, Cells, Societies and Committees 101 Annual Result May/June 2019 144 Annual Report 2019 - 20 PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Dear colleagues, students and friends, Perhaps, for the first time the Annual Report of our college is not being presented by the Principal on an Annual Day. We are all going through strange and difficult times as a pandemic sweeps across the globe forcing us to reinvent and reorganise ourselves. As we battle the virus we also introspect about how we have construct- - ed our society both locally and globally and search for new ideas that will take us into a post pandemic future. I have the pleasure of presenting the Annual Report 2020 of Ramanujan College online for all of you to browse through at your leisure and learn of the many achievements of the institution in the past one year. Nevertheless, I would like to pin some of the major accomplishments of Ramanujan College for the year 2019-20. Since teaching came to an abrupt halt by the middle of March 20 and the syl- labus remained incomplete, the teachers of Ramanujan College took up the chal- lenge of completing the semester teaching work and preparing the students for the end semester exams earnestly. The teachers used all forms of online platforms to stay connected with the students and continue with the teaching learning process. It is never easy to adapt to new technologies and changed environments but the teachers made every effort to fulfil their commitments towards their students. The teachers of this college need to be congratulated and applauded for this endeavour. As and when the next semester teaching begins we are ready to continue with our teaching learning process in offline, online and even in the blended learning mode. The silver lining to the dark clouds of the pandemic was when the College took a major and pioneering initiative in offering relevant and much needed online cours- es for teachers across the country. Within two weeks of the Prime Minister’s an- nouncement of a national lockdown due to Covid 19 the Research and Development Cell of the College launched through the Ramanujan College Teaching Learning Centre (TLC) its first online two week Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on ‘Managing Online Classes and Co Creating MOOCs’ under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) sponsored Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching {PMMMNMTT). More than 16000 participants from across the country applied for this FDP of which 9500 participants complet- ed the course. For this programme the College created a customised Learning Man- agement System (LMS) platform on which a specially designed online course was floated. This online course was not only predominantly participant friendly but also Ramanujan College Page 2 Annual Report 2019 - 20 incorporated within it evaluation methods and comprehensive feedback systems to judge learning outcomes. This creative, innovative and effective method of on- line training was hugely appreciated by the participants across the country. Due to enormous demand the same programme was relaunched and again we had more than 5500 participants. The resounding success of the first programme encouraged us to offer new online Faculty Development Programmes in different disciplines. By the end of June 20 the College had conducted more than 10 on- line programmes that included two four weeks long Faculty Induction/Orientation Programmes (FIPs). With a great sense of achievement and pride I wish to inform you that more than 30,000 teachers across the country have so far benefited from these online programmes. The mission of the College TLC was to reach the un- reached; through these online programmes we have meaningfully connected to teachers across the country, many of whom are located in remote areas. I must acknowledge the contribution made towards this pioneering endeavour by two of my very hard working young colleagues, Dr. Nikhil Rajput and Mr. Vipin Rathi, both in the Department of Computer Science, for having conceptualised and pro- vided the extremely complicated technical support for these hugely popular and much appreciated programmes to run so smoothly. Ramanujan College has been assessed by both the NAAC as well as the NIRF. The College IQAC conducts internal audits of its teaching and non-teaching staff reg- ularly. To further augment the assessment of the institution, this year the IQAC of the college conducted for the first time an external audit of the teaching and non-teaching staff of the college. Ramanujan College is perhaps one of the few colleges of the University of Delhi to have conducted this external audit. With full support and cooperation of the teaching and the non-teaching members a very detailed and incisive audit was carried out by the External Audit teams. The indi- vidual and department reports were shared with every member of the college and formal post audit review meetings were held. The audit assessment has helped the institution to become aware of its strengths and of the future challenges. The Col- lege is extremely grateful to Prof. Anand Prakash, Prof. Ujjwal Singh, Prof. Shobha Bagai, Prof. R.K. Sharma, Prof. Reetesh Singh and Prof. Daniel Lazar who were our external auditors for academics. We also sincerely thank Prof. Ramesh Gaur, Dr. Vikas Madan and Mr. Vikas Gupta who audited the administrative aspects of the college. The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) and the Teaching Learning Centre (TLC) of the college conducted a week long Faculty Development Programme (FDP) exclusively for all the teachers of the college on ‘Teachers, Teaching and Taught: Discovering New Meanings, Relationship and Purpose’ from 1st to 7th January, 20 under the convener ship of Dr. K. Latha, the Coordinator of the college IQAC. Prof. Virander Singh Chauhan, Ex Chairperson of the University Grants Commission (UGC), who was the chief guest and the key note speaker of the inaugural session of the programme, acknowledged that such a Faculty Development Programme, specially designed for all the teachers of the college, from different disciplines, was Ramanujan College Page 3 Annual Report 2019 - 20 only one of its kind and extraordinary. He congratulated the teachers of the Col- lege for having taken such a unique initiative. I take this opportunity to extend a heartfelt thanks to Prof. Virander Singh Chauhan for the Keynote address and for his encouraging words. I thank all the teaching faculty of the College for their co- operation and support. The College has entered into a number of Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with institutions and organisations that wish to collaborate with us in mutually beneficial programmes. We have an MoU with the Manage- ment Institute of Innsbruck, Austria. I met Prof. Andreas Altman, Rector, MII in Innsbruck and he was glad that his institution was a part of a collaborative aca- demic exchange programme with Ramanujan College. The College has also signed MOU with the Media & Entertainment Skills Council of India for resource and in- dustry support for the launching of vocational and Hons courses in media studies, film animation and computer graphics. We have also signed MOUs with a number of colleges from the University of Delhi and other universities of the country for conducting collaborative Faculty Development Programmes. We were happy to work together with Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi and pro- vide them with our Media Lab resources and consultation for the development of their MOOCs programmes for the ARPIT platform. A number of teachers in our college achieved academic success. Dr. Arnav Ku- mar, Department of Management Studies was awarded Ph.D under the guidance of Dr. K. Latha also from the same department. Ms. Parul Saini and Ms. Sonia Mu- del both from the Department of Commerce were awarded M. Phil degrees. Ms. Sonia Mudel has also been admitted in Ph.D. degree programme at the Department of Commerce, University of Delhi. Dr. Aanchal Singh has been awarded Ph.D. from the Department of Management, Kurukshetra University, Haryana. Mr. Himan- shu Sahu has completed his L.L.B. Mr. Vipin Rathi, Department of Computer Sci- ence was invited to deliver a lecture at the Open Networking Summit at Antwerp, Belgium. Mr. Arun Agarwal also from the Department of Computer Science was the key note speaker at the International Conference on Advances in Technolo- gy, Management and Sciences (IATMS-2019) at the American College of Dubai, UAE. Dr. Alok Ranjan Pandey, Department of Hindi, was felicitated with the ‘Tilka Manjhi Rashtriya Samman 2019’ in the field of Education at Bhagalpur, Bihar. He was also felicitated with the prestigious Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam National Dedication Award 2020 in the field of literature by the Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi. The College has been consistently encouraging teachers towards research and publication in reputed and accredited journals. I am glad to report that as many as eighteen members of our teaching faculty have published in Scopus or Web of Sci- ence accredited journals. They are Ms. Divya Bhanot from the Department of Ap- plied Psychology, Dr. S. P. Aggarwal, Dr. Anshika Agarwal from the Department of Commerce, Ms. Bhavya Ahuja Grover, Dr. Nikhil Kumar Rajput, Mr. Vipin Rathi, Mr. Arun Agarwal, Mr. Subodh Kumar, Dr. Amit Kumar Singh from the Depart- ment of Computer Science, Dr. Anjali Prasad from the Department of Economics, Ramanujan College Page 4 Annual Report 2019 - 20 Dr. Megha Agarwal, Dr. Virendra Kumar, Dr.